ANNOUNCEMENT INTERNATIONAL APULIA LAND ART FESTIVAL RESIDENCY 2018 - ALBEROBELLO (BA)

SIXTH EDITION

Point. 1 Purpose of the announcement

The Association UnconventionART index - in collaboration with the Casa Rossa Foundation and theMunicipality of Alberobello (BA) - for the sixth edition of the Apulia Land Art Festival, this Open Call in order toselect n. 10 (ten) participants who will be assigned positions of participation in the artistic residence that willthis year have its headquarters in the Puglia region of Alberobello (BA) and in the agricultural park of the"Casa Rossa". This announcement will select artists who will propose the works to be realized during thefestival. All proposals must follow the project guidelines (see Art. 2). The proposed works must beunpublished. Apulia Land Art Festival is included in the celebrations for the European Year of CulturalHeritage 2018.

Point. 2 Theme

The theme of this VI edition of the Festival is "2100 square meters of memory. Stories and routes of the RedHouse". Following an investigation of the sources (see the section 'Historical Notes' at the end of the Call foran introduction to the Red House), the artist will have the opportunity to decline his artistic project on identities,seasons and events occurred other time in the former masseria, Casa Rossa. The project to be presentedmay relate to one or more identities. Candidates must present a site specific project to be developed duringthe artistic residency. To simplify the historical mapping of the different 'seasons' of the Red House, theorganization proposes (but does not limit to further identification) the following steps:

-1896, the establishment of an Agriculture School to give the country "experts and hard-working farmers andhonest and pious citizens";-1940, the Ministry of the Interior implants "the longest-running Italian police concentration camp";-1947, in a climate of cold war, the Red House now hosts "foreign women from all over Europe, formercollaborators or prostitutes or unstable";-1948, together with "children, Germans, Albanian Muslims, Yugoslavs non-titines escaping, etc." there wasalso the Lithuanian painter Viktor Tschernon, who completely frescoed the Catholic chapel of Casa Rossa;-1950, the Red House becomes the set of the dramatic film, 'Women Without Name' by Géza von Radvànyi;-1956, the Red House becomes, in agreement with the Justice Department and the Region, Men'sRehabilitation House; - Seventies, the Red House becomes home to a local television station;-2007, the then Regional Directorate Mibact declares the Red House estate of historical-artistic interest.

Point. 3 Period and location

On the advice of the technical-scientific Committee of the festival the selected works will be carried out at theRed House's agricultural park, in the Municipality of Alberobello (BA), between August 30th and September8th 2018 (12:00) and presented during the Closing Sunday of the festival and the residency, day 9 September2018. It is specified that the projects will be carried out in the relevant rural area, called the Red House'sagricultural park, which has an extension of about ten hectares (10ha), and not inside the building.

Point 4: Apply

The application is free of charge. The residency is open to artists (or group of artists) of any age, nationality,and sex. In order to participate, the candidates are called to submit a project related to the topic in point 2.Only adults (>18) can apply.

Point 5: Rules of application

The applications should be sent at the following email address: direzione@apulialandartfestival.itThe subject of the email should be: “APPLICATION – APULIA LAND ART FESTIVAL – SIXTH EDITION”.This should be sent by 12.00 a.m. (Italian time, UTC +1) by June 15th, 2018.

Attachment

In order to be valid, the application should have attached the following documents:

1) Photocopy/scan of the I.D./passport;2) Updated CV/Résumé (this should include details concerning exhibitions, publications, etc.);3) Portfolio with texts, pictures, and links to website publications (PDF, no more than 1MB);4) Draft of a project pertaining to the theme of this edition (See points 1 and 2). The project should be sent asa sole PDF of 5mb max 10 pages. It should have the following layout: description of the project, technicalparameters (size, media, etc.), materials, quantities, approximate costs, interaction/integration with thenatural setting and the audience (rendering).

The applications will only be accepted if these parameters will be respected, and all the documents arehanded in.

Point 6: Board

The applications sent on time and respecting the above terms will be considered by a Committee composedthe following members:

Carlo Palmisano (Co-Founder and Director);

Giuseppe Capparelli (Environmental Installation’s Curator);

Carmelo Cipriani (Land Art Residency Curator);

Martina Glover (Co-Founder and Vice-Director);

Giosuè Prezioso (Congress Curator and Award Ceremony).

The outcome of the selection will be published on July 15th, 2018 on the official page of Apulia Land ArtFestival, see: www.apulialandartfestival.it; moreover, all the candidates will receive an official response viaemail on the address they indicated in the application. In case of necessity, the Direction will held the power tonominee new members of the Board of the Consultants.The final decision by the committee is incontestable.

Point 7: Selection criteria

Formal, aesthetic and conceptual quality of the project draft (score | 0-5 |); Coherence of the project draft with the proposed theme: "2100 square meters of memory. Stories and

routes of the Red House (score |0-5 points|); Feasibility (of the project) in terms of its environmental and economical impact (score |0-5 points|);

Evaluation of the C.V. (score |0-5 points|);

Upon evaluation of the applications, the board will post an official rank of the selected artists listing thepotential 10 project selected for the residency (which will be the first 10 ranked in the list). This will be postedby the date indicated in point 6.

The selected candidates will have until July 25th, 2018 to confirm their participation (signing a form which willbe sent along with the official email of acceptance, see point 6).In case of cancellation, the board will nominate new candidates from the list (according to their position on thelist).If too few candidates meet the criteria, the committee will appoint on call up to 10 artists.

Point 8: Residency

The selected artists will be offered a ten-day residence permit (see Art. 3) at the facilities that theOrganization will make available, during which the artist will have to realize the art-work proposed in Article 5of this Notice (or, with debit consideration, revision or re-design of the same).Overnight accommodation at the facilities available and meals (one meal per day) for the period of residencewill be charged to the Association. The modalities of management of the pension will be made morespecifically at the time of signing the official residence agreement.The cost of transport from/to the residence is at the expense of the participant (Apulia Land Art Festival invitesall candidates to seek sponsorships for the cost of transport and construction of the work in case these shouldnot be covered by the candidate himself). In the previous editions, Apulia presented, through a letter ofsponsorship, some foreign artists at embassies, obtaining, in some cases, sponsorships and financialsupport.Although supported by the organization, these operations remain at full responsibility of the candidate.More details will come with the final subscription.

Point 9: Media and technical equipment

UnconventionART offers a budget (max. 50,00 €) for each artist, who should propose a business planattached to the final application.It should be remembered that, being each work to be produced in the environment and using natural materials,it will also be possible to draw on materials available on site. Costs for materials and equipment outside theindicated threshold will be borne by the artist or third parties appointed by him / her (galleries, sponsorcompanies, etc.). The winners of the residence will have to read, sign and comply to the regulations for theuse of the structures and furnishings, which will be delivered to them at the beginning of the residence. Theartists also undertake to behave respectfully towards the environment and the principles of civil cohabitation.The candidates will be asked to sign a contract regulating the interaction with the natural setting, thepeople and the laws of the location.

Point 10: Artworks conservation

Being site specific, the artworks are meant to be left in the natural setting in which/for which they areconceived.

Point 11: Rights on the use of visual material

By participating in the residency, the candidate allows UnconventionART to use the visual material (pictures,videos, etc.) taken throughout the course of the residency.It is reported that in this edition will be filmed a Docu- Film on the artistic residency, so participants signing theform attached to the notice consent (as a release) to the part of the film and authorize the UnconventionARTAssociation to treat personal data in accordance with Law 675/96 (So-called "Privacy Act") and LegislativeDecree 196/2003 (Privacy Code).

Furthermore, the candidate allows UnconventionART to use the visual material for the website, the socialmedia networks and all the promotional portals pertaining the association.

Point 12: General Criteria

Nominations and documents submitted in ways other than those indicated in this announcement listed inpoints 5 and 7 will not be taken into consideration. The committee is not responsible for any material withcopyright or any other law.The candidature to Apulia Land Art Festival means accepting all the points of this regulation.

Point 13: Responsabilities

UnconventionART is not responsible for any of the following points:

Use of material protected by copyright or any other law;

Any datum or material sent but not received;

Damages of the assigned accommodations, the spaces involved in the residency and to the people.The responsibilities will be recognized and attributed to the subject involved in the violation.

The artist can, at his/her complete discretion, protect his/her artwork with insurance. After reading theseregulations, the candidate accepts all the terms and the conditions. The personal data of the candidate maybe used in the selection process.

Alberobello (BA), May 11 2018

Historical background·The Red House is a large building, in the countryside of Alberobello, on the road to Mottola, at the intersectionof the three Apulian provinces: Bari, Brindisi and Taranto. Throughout the first half of the twentieth century itwas a School of Agriculture, according to the wishes of its founder, Don Francesco Gigante. Immediately afterthe First World War he hosted the little orphans of soldiers who fell in battle, to whom he offered elementaryeducation. On the eve of the Second World War, it was requisitioned by the Ministry of the Interior andremained for many years isolated from the city, for exclusive police needs. At the Gigante Masseria, theoriginal name of the structure, between 1940 and 1943 were deported people who had strategic role orparticular political functions, mostly of Jewish origin, coming from every part of Europe, destined to Auschwitzand other extermination camps. Various nationalities arrived in chains, including Hindu, Irish and MalteseIndians, German Jews, Poles, former Czechoslovaks and stateless persons, politically dangerous Italians,Italian Jews who refused civil injunctions for work purposes, other Jews who became anti-Fascists for theRegime only because they had contested the persecutory anti-Jewish Italian legislation, Croatian Jewsescaping from the concentration camps directed by the ustaša, former Yugoslavs of the territories annexed toItaly subjected to violent measures of forced Italianization, including the burning of villages and the shootingof family units to which they belonged the Serbian and Slovenian partisans of Tito. Some, Jews and not, at thetime of the Armistice were transferred to Lazio and deported thanks to the zealous collaboration of the fascistpolice with the German occupiers. Between 1944 and 1946 - when the Puglia region attempted a difficult andchaotic transition to democracy, leaving unresolved the accounts left open by the fascist dictatorship, with thecomplication of an ally liberation that was anything but friendly with local civilian populations - former confinedpolitical fascists were detained, as well as other men accused of serious bloodshed resulting from tragicepisodes of purging from below, unleashed by angry mobs for the lack of institutional purge, former soldiers ofthe Decima Mas.

Between 1947 and 1949, in the midst of a climate of cold war, no less harsh than the hot but much longer one,many foreign women from all over Europe arrived, either ex-collaborators or prostitutes or strigglers followingthe Allies or without documents: with them, many children were interned, also rejected by all civil societies. Itwas then the turn of entire family groups of displaced persons from all over Europe, and not only: among them,especially Germans but also Muslim Albanians, Austrians already Italian citizens of South Tyrol who hadopted for Hitler for the new citizenship and who were now detested by both the Italians and the Yugoslavs nottitines leaving their country, women of the German Sudeten subjected to brutal torture by the Soviets,because already privileged by the Nazis, Russian Orthodox non-Bolsheviks and citizens of Baltic states,pursued by emissaries of the Red Army, defectors of various armies, foreign Jews expelled from the alliedcollection camps for violation of Italian laws, Polish Jews unwanted in their homeland who hoped to emigrateto Palestine.

This third season at the Campo, visited by reporters from all over Italy, inspired a well-known film, Donnesenza nome. The undesirable, by the Hungarian director Geza van Radvanij. The field has been used, from

time to time, as internment, concentration, transit, confinement, imprisonment, for refugees. The definition ofCasa Rossa as a reception area, widespread in Puglia in recent years, perhaps to rectify again, this time inApulian sauce, the myth hard to die about Italians, good people, that has not yet allowed us to fully reckonwith our dark history of the war and post-war years. On December 5, 2007, the Regional Directorate forCultural Heritage and Landscape of Puglia declared Casa Rossa an estate of historical and artistic interest,subject to the protection of the legislative decree 22nd January 2004 n.42. This date marked a watershed: theera of impromptu initiatives and liturgical memory has ended and projects on the future of the site have begun.Casa Rossa is not a unique example of the internment of Jews in Puglia, nor of the permanence of displacedpersons in the post-war period: it is however an isolated case in Italy and one of the few in the world oflong-term deportation structure: ten years.Here, on civilian populations, and in particular on women, children, political opponents, professionals andintellectuals, were dumped the costs of the war and the post-war period and the consequences of therewriting of the geopolitical map of Europe, in terms of mobilization, eradication of populations, deprivation ofevery right and dignity, as well as the elementary goods of daily life. In some houses of Alberobello isscattered a museum of works of art left by former interned artists, in exchange of food to fight hunger orclothes to endure the cold.The most important work of art at that time is represented by the frescoes in the Casa Rossa chapel. Thevariety of nationalities, cultures and religions of men and women who have been imprisoned for so manyyears at Casa Rossa, because of totalitarian oppression but also of intolerance for every diversity, means thatit can be proposed not only as a museum- Holocaust memorial in the South of Italy - also facing thedisappearance or transformation of similar places of memory in the South, prevalently didactic connotation -but also as a Center for Peace and Intercultural Dialogue between Europe and the Mediterranean, against alldeportations, discrimination and all wars. It is no coincidence that this meeting place of civilizations andcultures is located in the marvelous city of Alberobello, Unesco heritage of Humanity (source official websiteof the City of Alberobello).To this is added a further identity that saw the Red House protagonist in the seventies of the twentiethcentury: the building hosted a local television station and in the various rooms still bear evidence of thispassage.Among the curiosities it is also opportune to point out the Red House as a privileged place from the Apulianghosthunters.

For more information see:

http://www.comunealberobello.gov.it/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=836:casa-rossa&catid=136&Itemid=488&lang=ithttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vchAznSe_U

Casa Rossa

ATTACHMENT 1

To the attention of the Board of the Consultants

APPLICATION

Mr/Miss*_______________________________________________________________

Passport/ID code* ______________________________________________________

Date of birth (dd/mm/yyyy)* ___________ Place of birth* _______________________________

Now resident in* ___________________________________________________________

Address*_____________________________________________ ZIP code _______________

Phone number.____________________________________________________________

email*_____________________________________________________________________________

website ___________________________________________________________________________

Citizenship________________________________________________________________________

SUBMITS

This form to apply for official candidature (2018) to UnconventionART and its Apulia Land ArtFestival.

Date Signature

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*I authorize the use of law 196/2003

Place and date _______________________ Signature ______________________________

* I authorize the use of visual materials pertaining my application to promote the project, extending the authorization in case of positiveresponse to the selection and hence to the visual material produced throughout the residency.

Place and date ______________________ Signature ______________________________

Digital signature or scanned from the original.